Draft Decisions for the C.P.C. onThe Financial Plan and Plan of Emission for 1922

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1)TheFinance Commission shall be directed to submit by Tuesday,
15.XI., an estimate in gold rubles covering all and every form of revenue,
including the tax in kind, fuel, etc., etc.,

—tosubmit a calculation in gold rubles showing distribution of
expenditure by commissariats (absolute figures)—in comparison with
similar figures before the war (average for 5 or 10 years) and with
approximate figures for 1919 and 1920.

2)Tosubmit 2 variants: 240 and 300 million gold ruble volume of
emission.

3)Tocompare quota distribution of the general budget (both material
and monetary) with the distribution of rations under the food plan of theC.L.D.

4)Drawingup of the budget on the basis of the given plan (with an
emission variant of 240 million gold rubles) to be started at once.

5)Assignmentfor the State Planning Commission? The Central
Statistical Board? or an enlarged commission?

6)Timelimit-20.XII.

7)Couldwe not publish some of the Finance Commission’s findings?

especiallycalculation (in goods) of the pre-war ruble, and

so.[1]

1)TheFinance Commission and the State Planning Commission shall be
directed to complete the estimate of revenue and expenditure on the broad
terms at present accepted by the Finance Commission, as well as the
comparison ordered by the C.P.C. in its decision of November 5.

2)Thesecalculations to be presented in the form of summarised
statements viewed as preliminary data for shaping the state budget for the
year

1922.[2]

[1]Thedraft of a financial plan and of a plan of emission for 1922 was
down for discussion at the meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars on
November 5, 1921. Lenin’s motion formed the basis of the decision passed by
the Council on this question. Points 2, 4, 5 and 6 are crossed out in the
manuscript and were not included in the decision.

[2]Lenin’sdraft was incorporated in the text of the Council’s decision on
this question adopted on November 18, 1921. The Council endorsed
“tentatively the budgetary appropriations and their distribution among the
commissariats as submitted by the Finance Commission” and directed the
commissariats “to speed up the work of making up estimates, which should
be completed by December 1”. The Finance Commission and the State Planning
Commission were charged with “completing the calculation of revenues, both
monetary and material, within one week” (Central Party Archives of the
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C. of the C.P.S.U.).